Olympic skier Bode Miller and his wife, professional volleyball player Morgan Miller, spoke out for the first time since their 19-month-old daughter, Emmy, died after drowning in a pool in June.
"She was just a bear. She had such a powerful bull-like personality where she just did what she wanted," Bode Miller said on the Today show Monday.
“She brought so much to our lives.” See @SavannahGuthrie's full interview with Bode and Morgan Miller about their daughter's drowning https://t.co/iW96b4irMc
Morgan Miller said, “It was a normal day,” and explained that she was at her neighbor’s house with her kids when she took her eyes off Emmy for a quick moment and then saw a tiny sliver of light coming from the door that leads to the pool in the backyard.
"There’s not a day that goes by that I don’t pray for the opportunity to go back to that day and make it different," Morgan said through tears during the interview with NBC News' Savannah Guthrie. "But now we have the opportunity to make other parents’ days different."
Bode and Morgan said they wanted to share their story as a part of the healing process and that they want to help other parents learn more about drowning prevention.
"The intensity behind this conversation is where we are lacking," Morgan said. "This should be the number one thing that we talk about."
"The reality is, as a parent you can’t dodge responsibility for your kids," Bode Miller said. "That part is probably the most single difficult part to get over."
